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GUESTS: Jamal Dajani, producer of the TV program “MOSAIC: World News from the Middle East,” Rami El-Amine, a founding member of SUSTAIN (Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now)

Yesterday was the deadliest day of Israeli air strikes against Lebanon, with more than 50 people killed. The strikes were for the first time aimed at Beirut’s main Christian enclave. It also included extensive bombardment of what Israel claims is a bunker that was sheltering Hezbollah leaders. Hezbollah told news services that none of its leaders or members were killed in the strike. Israel told Lebanese residents to leave the southern partof the country within 24 hours. Also yesterday, Israeli ground troops launched their most significant incursion into southern Lebanon so far, forcing their way about 20 miles inland. Israeli officials say they will continue their offensive until their two soldiers held in captivity by Hezbollah are released and until Hezbollah is disarmed and uprooted from southern Lebanon. M

In an April 1982 interview of Noam Chomsky with Philip Maldari, Chomsky predicted the then Israeli invasion of Lebanon and tried to explain why Israel was doing it.

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